60 gallon cube

jeffskaggs · Feb 19, 2013

Starting to get a deep blue 60 gallon rimless tank, just going thru and getting everything together, just wanted to ask what skimmer you think I should go with, looking at skimz sk181 or the reef octopus sro2000, and getting ai vega lights but wondering if I should get 1or 2, just trying to get some help?

FMF0331 · Feb 19, 2013

reef octopus sro2000 < ------- I LIKE !!

jedidad · Feb 19, 2013

what are the dimensions of the tank? the vegas are supposed to be able to cover an area of 24"x24".

jeffskaggs · Feb 19, 2013

It's a 24" x 24" x 24"

jedidad · Feb 19, 2013

You would probably be ok with just one. I am putting four over my 36x36x26 cume but that is waybover kill. Coming yp with a good way to cover cube proportions can be tricky and i couldnt figure out how to fet food coverage with less without looking odd. I dont have a hood so it needed to look clean. You could always add a second in the future if need be but the 24x24 coverage is per ai.

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jeffskaggs · Feb 21, 2013

Do you think it would be a over kill with two of them

gqjeff · Feb 21, 2013

Jeff, I will let you know in the next day or 2. I have a 60 cube and have been running 2 sol whites on it for 2 yrs. They did not have the sol blue and I did not know they would release one a few months after buying the whites. So I have a vega color in hand this morning and will try to mount it today or tomorrow here at my office. This is my office cube. I am going for 1 now as is does seem to have good spread playing with it last night at home. I have a dual t5 setup I can always add. I actually have been thinking of getting 3-4 of the UV led chips 410-420 and doing a little 4 led add on for UV since they left that out of there build to date. As far as skimmer I run a cone SWC 160 cone and its a dang good skimmer. If you wanted to really rock it out maybe a 180 swc cone but actually I think it may be to much. With my sump I am roughly 70 gallons.

jeffskaggs · Feb 21, 2013

Thanks, I have one vega on order, and was told one should be enough, I know that are much brighter then the sols, as far as the skimmer I went with the reef octopus, my buddy had one in stock, the only problem was finding a sump, but he had one custom made for me from next reef, thinking about adding a doser, looking at the ghl and the bubble magus

gqjeff · Feb 21, 2013

I run a couple GHL controllers and dosers 1 each on this cube and 1 each on my 240 at home. BM looks good also but I am 100% sold on everything GHL makes.

jedidad · Feb 21, 2013

Im looking at the bubble msgus doser but who is ghm

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jedidad · Feb 21, 2013

Sorry ghl

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jeffskaggs · Feb 21, 2013

Ghl profilux dosers, they are really nice and pretty easy to use

jeffskaggs · Feb 21, 2013

But the bubble magus doser look very good also, just depends how much you want to spend

gqjeff · Feb 21, 2013

I have ran 1 flawless for a few yrs to date and my other has never had a problem either. Actually dosing alk/ca and vinegar with both setups and add Mg when needed. Thinking of just adding another motor and then add Mg 1x a week with the doser.

jeffskaggs · Feb 21, 2013

I'm looking at either the 3 pump or the 4 pump, that way I can dose cal, alk, and mag, and have a spare with the 4 in case I want to do iodine

boomtown · Jul 10, 2013

any updates on this build?

Winschuc · Jul 11, 2013

I'm running a SK181 on my 100G. It took a few weeks to get running properly with a low bio load, but now I love it. It's constantly pulling a nice thick layer of skimmate out. You might want to look at the 161 for a 60G.